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1/2 day. Had to wait to noon

Love that place

Ha! Thx. Not a train guy and not exactly common in nj

Sorry. What is that rail thingy sticking out of the buildings ass?

What the heck is the last pic?

$127 is discounted?

This dude I have not seen in years. He used to roll with the young hottie in pink hair

No, just no. Blue did survive but it’s like they got the snot kicked out them in a street brawl. Fuckin Groundhog Day since November. But this cold snap though! (Fist pump!)

Ski Mt Ellen on a Thursday if you can manage that. It’s $30 throwback Thursday’s all season long. Only good for Mt Ellen area but that is plenty

During inversions it’s like being in China. Indiggio loves the little cotton resorts and he gave it a nope

Bring a respirator

Hope you are tits deep! Enjoy!

Lmao. How was the last week of skiing at blue working out for you?

Day 4: Jay Upper 20sF. First day of trip with full price. Checked Burke’s trail status and opted for jay. 50 min drive from Lyndon. Hit Bonnie chair first and ran a groomer to the jet pod. Hard pack or ice. Yup, that type of day. Strategy was to move from lookers right to left and search for the best stuff. #2 went down kitzbeuhel despite me telling him ice ice moguls. I skied the ice rink of jet. No winners. We then went to kitzwoods. Much better. But up top I failed to execute a required turn and was a tree hugger (to paraphrase GSS; ski good or hug wood). No worries. Lower kitzwoods was the bomb though. Bonnie chair to canyonland glades which normally flow good for me was a bust. Not enough base. To many unexpected crevasses/streams. But power line bumps where $ so that was fun. CanAm and river quai while technically open was a “yeah, no”. Saw no point in tram (but hardy souls where hitting the head wall goods) so traversed to the flyer. Pomaline was damn fun. Huge ice bumps but skied in tight so fun and partially avoided the the bowling ally trails everyone else on. Andres and beaver pond skied great. So did north and northwest passage glades. Lower Everglades skied great but I track to far left and had to noodle back. JFK was great or horrendous depending on how far or tight the ice bumps were (tighter is better). We skied until 3:30 and called it a day. Not epic. Sometimes quite fun, sometimes sweet Jesus get me out of here (most trails). Heading home tomorrow. Jay may get 6” by noon tomorrow, but we are done. No pics aside from iconic head wall tram shot.

Day 3: Smuggs (BOGO) Got a PM from Moe Ghoul offering to show us around. Pretty friggin cool! Arranged to meet after lunch. We started on some groomers off the Madonna chair to warm up. It was apparent smuggs got a bit More snow than MRV. A lot of the black runs are still closed off the Madonna chair but FIS and Doc Dempsey we’re open. FIS has whales and weird bump line on each side of the whales so only did once. Doc Dempsey was loud up top but had some pretty friggin good snow after that so opted to do a couple of times. Hooked up with Moe Ghoul after a quick lunch and we went to the sterling chair. Moe explained the snow at this time of year can be better than Madonna and true dat. A non- groomed blue off the top had epic crud piles which were awesome. After Moe peaced out #2 and I stayed on the sterling chAir and ran that top blue and (kinda sorta poached bootlegger) a bit then hit highland powder keg glades which made for great bump skiing. I knocked it off a little before last chair and #2 got one more. Awesome day and many many thanks to Moe Ghouls generosity, it is appreciated!

Day 2: Mt Ellen Currently sitting at bar because #2 is still out. My legs are cooked. Woke up to 2” a clipper dropped. Checked MRG snow conditions and decided nope. Not enough open. We opted for SB instead. As luck would have it it’s $30 Thursday’s at Mt Ellen. Score! Maybe legit 3-4” at summit, 2-3” lower down. Found freshness all morning on the edges. Obviously on hard pack put snow piles/crud stayed floaty McBoaty. Lapped trails revealed my doppelgänger was nesting my turns and I, his. Never see that blue. I thought exterminator was ROTD as we kept lapping that but the award goes to hammerhead. HH is narrower then most so held the snow better. Our first run down HH was on our way in for a quick lunch but after the initial run we repeated another 5x. Bump bump city. By 2:30 I told #2 he won and I’m going in. Great great day. Tomorrow is BOGO day at Smuggs and relocating base amp to Lyndon

Post script: castle rock terrain is NOT closed. Only the lift is. Can hike in from heavens gate. Did not know until I checked SB’s snow report

Yesterday the right bump line on Main Street at blue was crazy good. I’m guessing they mowed then down

Left NJ at 0-dark thirty with son #2 and made it up to sugarbush in 5.25 hr (Lincoln). 15F at base, couple degrees colder up top. Started on some groomers because son’s #2 first day back on skis since breaking leg on gully #1 at big sky last year. After lapping a few and since castle rock is still closed headed to area under direct sun (north lynx triple). Limited terrain but sunrise or sun dimple or whatever the fuk you call the bump run off of the lynx chair was $. Firm but still not crazy technical. Lapped that and whatever bump run it’s called under lynx triple down to bottom on perder whales with many snow guns going (15F) under lift that gets you to lynx chair (I should be a SB mountain guide). (Self) limited terrain but crazy fun day. Been skiing blue since November so nice change of pace. I knocked it off at 3 but #2 skied until last chair while I drank Lawson’s sunshine at bar. Then Mad Taco dinner; a perfect ending. Was planning on MRG tomorrow but reports been sketch so may lay out $ and ski Mt Ellen tomorrow. (Today was warren miller free vouchers.) TBD.

Was the new north side area open?

Lol! Sigh...

Ehh The only fun part was the free-for-all once they dropped the ropes. Otherwise meh

Happy Winter solstice! Sigh...

So (Trail) Coming Soon is gonna be a new jibhonk trail? Boo! Did blue post that on FB it some such?

This is actually funny